28 companies offered ownership interests in Norway licensing round

Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy assessed applications from a total of 31 companies during autumn 2021.

Of the 53 production licences, 28 are in the North Sea, 20 are in the Norwegian Sea and 5 are in the Barents Sea. 17 of the production licences are additional acreage to existing production licences.

Equinor was awarded 26 new production licences: 12 licences as operator and 14 licences as partner. 12 are in the North Sea, 10 in the Norwegian Sea and 4 in the Barents Sea.

Lundin Energy was awarded interests in 10 exploration licences, including 6 licences in the North Sea, 3 licences in the Norwegian Sea and 1 licence in the Southern Barents Sea. 5 of the newly awarded licences will be operated by Lundin Energy Norway.

Offers were also given to the following companies (shares/operatorships):

• Aker BP (15/7)
• A/S Norske Shell (2/1)
• Chrysaor (4/1)
• Concedo (3/0)
• ConocoPhillips (3/3)
• DNO (10/3)
• Idemitsu (3/0)
• KUFPEC (1/0)
• Longboat (1/0)
• LOTOS (4/0)
• M Vest (2/0)
• Neptune (2/2)
• OKEA (4/3)
• OMV (3/1)
• ONE-Dyas (3/0)
• Pandion (3/0)
• Petrolia NOCO (2/0)
• PGNiG (4/3)
• Source (2/0)
• Spirit (7/2)
• Suncor (2/0)
• Sval (3/0)
• TotalEnergies (1/0)
• Vår Energi (10/5)
• Wellesley (3/1)
• Wintershall Dea (7/4)

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